Example sentences of "[been] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 .
2 ‘ It was a crowd of boys who 'd been together for years — somebody was always up to something .
3 But Vicky 's now , she had erm anorexia the girl friend , she sort of got over it but then er hos , her mum and , oh it 's all very confusing , mum and the boy friend been together for years , they 've now split up , Vicky 's now , it 's all been sort of everything on top of her
4 It is as though he 's been inside for months .
5 This has been so for decades and there is little on the horizon that threatens to curtail it .
6 This has been so for centuries , and afflicts all nations .
7 Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries .
8 They were in the middle of a meeting and he was irritated that Stevens ' mind — often his entire presence — had been elsewhere for weeks .
9 " You 've been away for ages , " she says .
10 It seems as though we have been away for years .
11 After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed .
12 Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks .
13 He noticed that when local church leaders had been away for Bible School training , they ceased to tell stories in their preaching .
14 When they first moved far enough into the courtyard to glimpse Gabriel sitting on his cloud , the morning sunshine dazzled eyes that had been indoors for days on end .
15 ‘ He had n't been home for weeks , anyway … ’
16 He never put in an appearance until early evening and , except for that first night , he had not even been home for dinner .
17 The plan had been originally for Rohan to marry Antoinette , but because she was the Baronne 's niece , not Gaston 's , the inheritance would have been penalised financially by the government .
18 I have been here for decades untold in this court , never leaving it except in my mind , ranging to far stars yet never truly experiencing those elsewheres .
19 I seem to have been here for ages . ’
20 ‘ But some of them have been here for ages , ’ she remonstrated .
21 I have n't been here for ages and ages !
22 ‘ The Arbuthnots have been here for generations .
23 ‘ He 's been here for hours , though .
24 They were a striking couple — tall , slim and very , very pale against old hands who 'd been here for days or even weeks .
25 These have been here for months
26 ‘ You have n't been here for weeks — all the time I was ill .
27 I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages .
28 I have n't been here for years , although the land belongs to me .
29 No one 's been here for years . ’
30 If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ?
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